Peter Ihrfelt
Partner
Head of Energy, Sweden
Peter Ihrfelt works mainly with M&A and private equity. Peter has extensive experience of both domestic and cross-border transactions and he has acted in relation to investments within a large number of sectors. He also regularly serves as legal and strategic advisor to entrepreneurial businesses.
Peter is also very experienced in advising on investments in wind power and other types of renewable energy sources.
Peter heads DLA Piper's Energy sector in Sweden.
Qualifications
Professional background
Partner, Advokatfirma DLA Piper Sweden KB
2016-
Partner, Advokatfirma DLA Nordic
2004-2016
Associate, Advokatfirma DLA Nordic
1998-2004
Clerk, Norrtälje tingsrätt
1995-1997
Education
University of Stockholm, Master of laws (LL.M.)
1995
University of Surrey, England, Law Studies
1994
University of Stockholm, Business Administration
1992
University of Stockholm, Economics
1991
Memberships
Swedish Bar Association since 2001
American Chamber of Commerce in Sweden
Experience
Selected experience
Lead counsel for OX2 Group in divestments and joint ventures for numerous Swedish wind power projects during the last fifteen years with installed capacity over 1 000 MW and with investment value exceeding ten billion SEK.
Advising OX2 in renewables projects in Finland, Norway, Germany, Poland and southern Europe.
Acted for Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB on multiple occasions as provider on non-recourse project finance to wind farm projects in Sweden.
Acted for Swedbank AB (publ) on several occasions in its providing project finance to various wind farm projects in Sweden.
Acted for leading German banks on multiple occasions as provider on non-recourse project finance to renewables projects in Sweden.
Advising leading German sustainable investment company in their wind power investment in Sweden.
Advising Suisse investment company in their wind power investment in Sweden.
Advising leading Israelian renewable energy developer in their wind power investment in Sweden.
Advising leading Norwegian renewable energy developer in their wind power investments in Sweden.
Advising Peas Industries in their investments in the biogas sector.
Advising leading energy efficiency company on various Swedish projects.
Supported UGI Corporation, the global, US-based gas distribution business, in relation to the acquisition of Shell's LPG-business in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, UK and the Benelux countries.
Ranking
Legal 500
"Very responsive and service-minded team"
Ranked in Legal 500 in Commercial, Corporate and M&A 2023
Ranked in Legal 500 in Energy 2023
Chambers and Partners
"He is very competent and very familiar with business practices. He is very business-oriented."
Ranked in Chambers in Energy & Natural Resources 2023